CIA building case 2001 anthrax attacks were international terror plot

Washington Times ^ | 12/26/03 | Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough

[Angelus Errare]

The CIA has been quietly building a case that the anthrax attacks of 2001 were in fact the result of an international terrorist plot.

U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports tell us the information showing a terrorist link to the anthrax-filled letters sent by mail in the weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks is not conclusive. But it is persuasive.

[Angelus Errare]

Sounds to me like somebody owes Hatfill a big apology.

[Angelus Errare]

Mega-Ping!

[John Beresford Tipton]

"Sounds to me like somebody owes Hatfill a big apology."

Maybe the FBI agent that rode over his foot would like to stand in front of his car?

[snopercod]

How can this be??? They were sure it was the right wing militia.

[paul in cape]

I don't believe it. It makes no sense for the terrorists to send anthrax to their compatriots, the Democrat Senators. Now if they sent it to Sen. Frist or Rep. Delay, then I might agree...

[BagCamAddict]

traces of anthrax recovered from a bomb in early 2003 were of the same strain Iraq declared in 1991 it had weaponized.

ANTHRAX.... in IRAQ.... on a BOMB... in 2003.

So much for "No evidence of WMDs."

[Southack]

The wife of the Sun's editor was the landlord to at least two of the 9/11 terrorists. This is no coincidence. What you have to remember is that *MOST* of the people who contracted anthrax got it when their own innocent mail was cross-contaminated with the anthrax letters as the envelopes touched each other in various post offices. This is why entire post offices had to be shut down. They weren't the target of the anthrax letters, but their mail got contaminated by the anthrax letters going to those targets.

Well, just as those anthrax letters contaminated other mail that they came into contact with while they were being mailed, the anthrax letters would *also* contaminate other letters being mailed by the terrorists, such as those to pay rent to their landlords. And those letters to their landlords would have likewise contaminated other mail, so it's easy to see how two people at the Sun's office got infected.

Contrary to the spin put forth by the "blame the right wing white guy" crowd, the Sun was not the intended target. The Sun didn't get a letter saying "We have this anthrax, you die now" like everybody else, and also take note that the actual anthrax targets were all in NYC and Washington, D.C., not Florida.

No, the Florida anthrax attack was an accident due to cross-contamination. The Sun's editor had his wife working as a landlord, and her mail got contaminated when the terrorists had to pay their rent to her.

No other theory explains how and why the Sun got hit in the manner that it did, but my theory above clearly shows a direct contamination trail from the terrorists to their landlord to the Sun's office.

They had to pay their rent, and the anthrax cross-contaminated their correspondence.

[FreeAtlanta]

Wasn't Dashole the majority leader at the time? If so, then it could be that terrorist had gone for the title and attempt to knock off our gov. instead of worrying about their friends. After all, look at all the actual members of their faith they are killing with their current activities. Grand scheme.

[FreeAtlanta]

Didn't Atta also buy Cipro in the weeks before 911? I heard he did.

Or, was that just an Urban legend?

[Darksheare]

"Some officials think the intelligence is at least as valid as the FBI's "mad scientist" theory..."
*chuckle*
Translation: "So far we haven't found sheepdip, so maybe we need to look at other things."

Apology?
They won't do that, law enforcement agencies do not like to issue apologies for any reason since that would make then look bad.
They do not like having egg on their faces.

[Henchman]

The Bureau strikes again! WOW! Are we safe from the terrorists. Thanks to our competant freinds in the Bureau.

[Angelus Errare]

ping

[polemikos]

How can this be??? They were sure it was the right wing militia.

Various reasons for FBI, um, "disinformation," include:
- Smarts: the FBI, at the behest of the admin, is sowing disinfo while we prepare for checkmate.
  ("disinformation" is a comforting possibility, but highly unlikely at this late date)
- Liberalism: FBI management, promoted during the 90s, really believe the RW nut scenario.
  (unfortunately, this is at least as likely as the "disinfo" campaign)
- Organizational vanity: The FBI, pop-psych profile in hand, is forcing the case to fit the profile.
  (profiles have media glamour, but are easily subjected to political forces)
- Bureaucratic entropy: The FBI's mission and training focus is on domestic crime-fighting.
  (when all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail)
- Revisionism: FBI's focus on domestic extremists led to disasters at Ruby Ridge and Waco.
  (therefore, a domestic, RW, anthrax nut would prove the FBI was "correct" all-along)
- Policy Problems: Faulty evidence rules and case policies from the 90's badly affect investigations.
  (Rank-and-file grumblings: Trie; Wen-Ho Lee; Moussaoui; flight schools; OKC; etc.)
- Stoolie: The FBI is attempting to protect a mole or some other source of info.
  (maybe they have someone on the inside, but it seems unlikely)
- CYA: They're covering for some yet-unknown, internal lapse or action.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET that it was HILLARY who announced, almost immediately after the first Anthrax Attacks in American History, that they were domestic attacks against all her Friends:

-TOM BROKAW
-DAN RATHER
-PETER JENNINGS
-TOM DASCHLE
-TOM LEAHY

in order to enhance their credibility as "Purple Heart" Veterans in a new Time of War she helped cause...


and to also threaten HILLARY's Enemies such as:

-American Media, Inc Publications
-Columnist DICK MORRIS' NY Daily News Editorial Staff


The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.

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[polemikos]

Anthrax = Islamic Terrorism

Any scenario other than Islamic terrorism means ALL of the following are just coincidences.

SERIOUS CONNECTIONS

- The most serious bioterror attack in America began only days after 9-11

- The letters all mention standard Islamic catch-phrases.

- Florida Dr. Tsonas treated Ahmed al-Haznawi for a severe leg lesion in late June.
  Dr. Tsonas is now convinced it was cutaneous anthrax.

- Two Johns Hopkins biodefense experts (Dr. Thomas Inglesby, Dr. Tara O'Toole) agree with Tsonas.

- FL hijackers inquire about crop-dusters and dispersal characteristics of chemical loads.

- Atta attempted to obtain a loan to buy a plane and convert it into a chemical transport.

- Moussaoui, the "20th hijacker", had tech info on airliners, crop-dusters, and wind patterns.

- Mohamed Atta went to a drugstore with red, chemical-burned hands mid-2001.
  Druggist thought Atta was suffering from exposure to a chemical with basic pH, possibly bleach (used to kill anthrax).

- Allah Rakah, detained by FBI, for placing suspicious bag of letters in his car with FL license plates

- Atta met twice with Colonel Muhammed Khalil Ibrahim al-Ani, a "very senior" Iraqi 'Special Ops' agent.
  (one report says the Czechs confirmed they had video...spycraft SOP)
  (another report claims that a vacumm bottle was passed to Atta during the meeting)

- Ziad Jarrah also met with an Iraqi agent in 2001 in the UAE.

- Marwan al-Shehhi also met with an Iraqi agent in 2001 in the UAE.

- Iraq is the ONLY hostile country known to have succeeded in weaponizing anthrax

- Iraq conducted military exercises simulating the dispersal of anthrax spores from crop-dusters

- The anthrax coating is silica, a material used by Iraq on biological agents.
- Chemical and biological weapons are effectively dispersed from crop-dusters

- The terrorists had two operational hubs: Hamilton, New Jersey and Delray, Florida. Anthrax was found in both areas.

JUST COINCIDENCES??

- The wife of the Sun tabloid's editor rented two apartments to two hijackers In Florida.

- The intials of the ringleader, A-T-T-A, are highlighted in letter 3a (Brokaw).

- Marwan al-Shehhi went to Huber Drugs (with Atta) with severe chest congestion.
  The pharmacist sold him a bottle of Robitussin initially, and later antibiotics.

[wideminded]

Wasn't Dashole the majority leader at the time? If so, then it could be that terrorist had gone for the title and attempt to knock off our gov. instead of worrying about their friends.

How do you explain the anthrax letter sent to Sen. Leahy? He doesn't seem to be one of the more well-known senators.

[Cobra64]

Vast right wing conspiracy fer sure. Daschle told me so.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for all the links:

[expatpat]

I prefer the theory that the Florida letter was the result of a terrorist taking his instruction too literally. He was told to send letters to the American media and sent the first one to American Media Inc. in Florida.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

See my ALOHA RONNIE Post #14 =

Anthrax Targets Sen. LEAHY and Sen. DASCHLE's credibility enhancements on TV in their Battles against our Commander-in-Chief BUSH's protecting us in Time of War.

Sen. LEAHY even went on to repeadedly remind us on TV during one of his Battles against BUSH that he was targeted by really powerful Anthrax with the strength of 100,000 Spores on an area of a pinhead.

T'is so cravenly obvious to me, anyway.


So's this:

'HILLARY and TERRORISM's plan to regain the White House'

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022571/posts

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